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This episode features music by Amir Hossein, Wajiha Rastagar, Dinelka Liyanage, Usofragi, Disco Puppet, ArtSaves, HADI and more.

Tse Tse Fly Middle East was a nonprofit arts and activist organisation that existed from 2015 until 2023. Throughout that time, it presented a monthly two-hour radio programme showcasing sound art and experimental music from the Middle East, India and North Africa.

Considerable efforts were expended on this ninth episode to disguise the identity of a veteran secretmonger who pays a visit to the basement antiquarian bookshop where hesitant steps in unravelling the British Library's Suppressed Safe are under way.

Ferreting around, a rare book is discovered which would be dodgy to mention in this blurb. Quite a boring episode if you're not interested in this sort of thing.

Originally commissioned in 2022 as part of Radio Art Zone's tapestry of 22-hour radio productions, this project by Daniel R. Wilson is re-presented here in episodic form. Asphyxia hacks the antagonising systems which thwart and forestall projects (its name also acknowledges the asphyxiating atmosphere of long-form radio when made by a single person). It is a damaged would-be radio documentary exploring the Narnia of restricted access material and gatekept employment.

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.

This episode features music from Torba, Twenty Three Hanging Trees, Chelidon Frame, Pascal Colman & Chase Foley, V-Stok, Menion and Eye Spirit & Matt Finney.

Nicola Serra, founder of East London's experimental music festival Dronica, presents new and archival material.

Music by Gelier Jonathan, Carl Matthews, Cyanbaal, Escaped Trees, Adam Balusik, Jay-Dea Lopez, Vangelis, Eastern Fear Ritual, Meteora, Lluvia Ácida, 82-75 and Spaceship.

Phantom Circuit is a show of strange and wonderful sound waves - featuring music that is alien, electronic, exotic, essential.

This month: The year is 2020 and Greece is filled with concentration camps... A virus threatens us all.. The US are at the verge of a race war... so I wash items because they need to be clean.

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

Virgilio Oliveira explores the sonic environment in collaboration with Porto's Radio Manabras, presenting an hour of sound art and field recordings.

Where the Dead Voices Gather is an indeterminate process driven radio experiment that uses the book 'Where The Dead Voices Gather' by Nick Tosches as its starting point.

Songs are chosen from a series of libraries based on the structure of a haiku. Each show has 17 songs / sounds therefore each show represents a sonic haiku.

Where the Dead voices gather is exploring the sonic potentials of written text and the indeterminate.

In this edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest, most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Blue (Da ba Dee). There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Aliens, nu metal singers, banana lovers, bardcore makers, ... all are welcome in Shuffle mode.

This episode features some special guests: ♬ernesto♬, Zorotl, Bananaschool and Sistor.

Shuffle by Agnès Pe is a formula radio programme taken to the extreme: repetitive, obscure and humorous. Each episode presents obscure covers of a single song. “Anything that spreads by imitation or spreads by bodily reproduction, like genes, or by viral infection is a meme” - (Richard Dawkins, 2013).

Each episode is presented in two halves: the original field recordings from the first half of each episode (A-sides), and the second half of each episode (B-sides) is a sonic response by invited artists, curated by artist and musician Jack Prest.

These responses take the form of deconstructed, remixed or re-recorded versions of the original field recordings and explore ambient electronic, contemporary classical, noise and other musical/sound forms conceptually connected to the practice of field recording.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS: If you would like to contribute a field recording from an art institution to This Is Not A Love Song (Sound Archive), contact Joe and Chanelle at chanelle@chanellecollier.com

The artists would like to thank and acknowledge support from all contributing artists and arts workers who have offered recordings and advice.

The series is made in collaboration with Jack Prest.

A-Side Field Notes:
"Episode 6 closes this series with a recording of the MCA in our home town, Sydney, Australia. It is the very first museum at which a recording was made for this project. Here we tested if we could keep our bodies still and silent for 15mins of audio recording, while taking in the artwork and museum around us.

And it was here that we learned that though museums are places for looking at art, it is highly suspicious to look too much and too long. After standing still and looking intently at an excellent large scale wall piece, for about 10mins, staff were compelled to ask what was I doing? With some obvious concern. Perhaps for my wellbeing. Perhaps for the wellbeing of the artwork or the art-space. I couldn’t be sure. I could only assure them that “Everything is OK” – Chanelle Collier.

B-Side Notes:
"For ep.6, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, the B-side is by Ollie Brown. Ollie has presented a series of audio vignettes that drift over the Museum sounds. There is a kindness and beauty in these compositions that has prompted me to think of the soft collision between the personal and the institutional.

I think about the actualities of spaces, represented within these sounds. The huge halls of the MCA, Sydney; the digital; the territories of exchange; of Ollies's studio; the room he's in; his breath; and the space that reverberates his voice. Sound travels, it has many coordinates, multiple origins, it echoes, closes and is absorbed, multiplies and fades. It touches.

Every space is characterised by a system; is territorialised with its own authority and ownership, rights and regulation; each is occupied for specific causes and varied uses. These are made up of many bodies and personal stories that visit, inhabit, and relate to sound and space; the role Chanelle and I play by instigating this project, our travel and correspondence; each B-side contributing artist and their labour from within each individual circumstance; and of course, Milo, who is in London, caretaking and delivering this opportunity to ride the airwaves." – Joe Wilson.

From The Archive:

(THE POSITION OF THE IMAGE):

Eschewing traditional painting methods in favour of doing a recording in its place, is an engagement with the context of its placement. The sounds of an audience looking at paintings is an engagement with the context of viewing. This is an effort to engage the unspoken ideology of a painting and the spaces that painting occupies.

The position of the image is at once a physical set of parameters relating to its location, and an ideological position. A painting doesn’t only display from a singular vantage, such as a canvas surface or a wall, but instead displays within a system, that is also a network. Paintings move through multiple sites of agency and viewing. The handling of a painting changes hands between artist, handler, curator, dealer and collector which pertains to ownership and transaction. Paintings are in motion, travelling into differing contexts, from studio to gallery to home or storage. So the ephemerality of sound belonging to an origin is comparable to a picture in contemporary culture, to reproduction in particular.

Objects inevitably recur as images, sounds recur through recordings. They become multiplied heterogeneously into various digital devices, services and places simultaneously. The digital data travels onto screens and speakers at different resolutions and fidelity. At the same time the it travels electronically to remote physical locations to be stored on hard-drives and servers belonging to various entities. An original painting is more than likely to end up in a storage rack, while the data goes to a rack of hard-drives and storage device. In the end, as part of a multi-platform digital reality, the fixed singularity of the original is a highly suspect notion, distant, given that it departs from one singular network and origin.

An original is the locust of its copy as agent, becoming one amongst many in a network of competing agencies. The possession of agency and ownership, is transactional and ideological. Each having a familial relationship to the context of each discrete image. What amounts to a consideration of reproductions and originals is important when one weighs the possibility that the original also becomes a derivative of its own reproduction.

There is a shifting focus; into situational context, from the discrete to its counterpart, and its supposed position in the environment it aspires to, the Museum.

– Joe Wilson

This Is Not A Love Song [Radio] builds on an existing field recording project by artists Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier titled This Is Not A Love Song (Sound Archive): 200 field recordings, 200 countries; a collection of the ambient sounds of major art institutions around the world, created through recordings from a global community of contributors. The project appropriates sound to critically study the ambience of institutional space.

In this extract from the day, Plum by Angela Wai-Nok Hui.

Angela Wai-Nok Hui is a percussionist and multidisciplinary artist based in the UK and Hong Kong.

Archival recordings of a 7-hour radio event broadcast live from the Resonance Extra studios on the 29th January 2023, featuring live performances and new and exclusive audio works.

This week’s Out From Under is a new music special, taking a deep dive into an ocean of new music releases from Australian experimental artists. We’re going to be listening to tracks from the new album and companion remix package from Melbourne’s avant industrial and dark ambient masters My Disco; plus deconstructed club adventures from the Eternal Label; the latest alt.jazz excursion from Australian / Scottish collaboration Sensaround (featuring Shoeb Ahmad from Tangents), and much more.

Hosted by Stu Buchanan, Out From Under dives deep beneath the surface of the Australian music scene, celebrating experimental and eclectic music from the far end of the world.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

Welcome to walkplacedistancetime.

Walking, movement in place, in air, distance through time.

Today’s episode is an Orford Replication ... Movement across time at Orford Ness ... Sequential nine minute sections from recordings of eight replicated walks across Orford Ness in August 2016.

embodiment -:- walking human movement -:- place more-less natural -:- distance time over across -:- field recording -:- poetry -:- composition -:- martin p eccles

Andy Backhouse presents a two hour show of new and unusual music and sounds - playing everything from Free Jazz to Field Recordings. This is an open-format show with a difference.

This month's show features new releases from collaborators of Late Works including Bianca Scout, Elena Isolini & Powerplant, as well as tracks by Yuta Bandoh, Able Noise & more. Watch Kingdom of the Fairies by Georges Méliès.

The radio counterpart to live intermedia event series Late Works, hosted by founder Joseph Bradley Hill. Each month a selection of artists respond to the show on postcards and send them in as inspiration for the next. Running through the shows are a modular stem experiment in which musicians improvise live to original 15 minute compositions.

From the most abrasive to the unbelievably sublime, Hope Valley Cement Works attempts to curate a selection of experimental music and sounds, from collected field recordings and sound collages, to serene ambience, impressive drone and the odd deconstructed club track. A series by Kris Cooper.

Wet assemblage of dank & dark delights. Malfuncioning themes of humidity, wetness and everything moist. Neo tropical thrills to watch the (early) sunset by...

Picture: Jambiani, Unguja Island, Zanzibar, 2015

Discrepancies is a global showcase of disparate music with a focus on earthly field recordings and international sounds, curated by the Discrepant record label, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso.

Mutual elevations bring the Pymmes Brook into babbling convergence with the Lee Navigation. Cheerfully swapping stories they flow on towards their meeting with old River Lea downstream.

This show consists of two approaches to repurposing the same sonic material gleaned from Littoral Transmissions' previous Lea wanders.

Littoral Transmissions meander through the sonic landscape of the River Lea from Stonebridge Lock to Leamouth. Recordings from the field converge with layers of sound to create an aural impression of the navigation.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Genkaibō’s poem “heaven and earth / still not rent asunder / - morning mist”.

To have your music featured on the show, participate in the Haiku music challenge.

Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly haiku poem, curated by Marco Alessi of Naviar Records and Naviar's international community of composers.

William Fields explores the potential of algorithmic music through the process of recreating (and inventing?) genres with his musical operating system.

Tonight: exploring human rituals - both intentional and unintentional - always repetitive and rhythmic. Playlist features songs from Moondog, Alvin Lucier, The Focus Group, Chassol, Loud Neighbor, and Ryoji Ikeda.

Said the sky to the moon, shall we do a dance? I'll wait for you to make the move but please don't wait until you hear - the sound below the atmosphere. Ceylan Göksel and Sami Fitz reach subliminal heights with genre-busting spoken word, ambient textures, sound sculptures, and a different theme every show. We wish you a good night.